Please don't ask me to recall specific texts after all these years, but Stan knew a lot of bawdy versions of shanties, and he was certainly up for singing at after hours entertainments. I recall one night in a pub called the Trawler on Liverpol Dock Road, now alas knocked down, where he sang several bawdy shanties. He then told us that he'd sent a set of bawdy texts to the Hungarian/American folklorist Gershon Legman. This would have been in the late 60s and I recall him saying he sent them anonymously, to avoid being arrested for sending obscene materials through the post. Perhaps a search of Legman's estate might yield something.
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